i 



8. PANUErS. 77 



Molioiia liua, Less. Compl. Buff. ix. p. 139 (1837). 



Orthonvx icterocophalus, Lafi: Bev. ZdoI. 1839, p. 257. 



Orthonyx heteroclitus, Lufr. Mag. Zuol. 18.39, pi. 8. 



Mohoua ochrocepbala, Gruy, List Gen. B. p. 25 (1841) ; id. Voy. 



Ereb. Sf Terr., Birds, p. 5 ; id. Ibis, 1862, p. 226. 

 Muscicapa chloris, Forst. Descr. Aniin. p. 87 (1844). 

 Orthonyx ochrocepbala, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. lol, pi. 46 (1847) ; id. 



Han'd-l. B. i. p. 185, no. 2234; Button, Cat. B. New Zeal. p. 8; 



Buller, B. New Zeal. p. 103, pi. 12. fig. 2 (1873) ; id. Man. B. N. 



Zeal. p. 16, pi. 9. fig. 1. 



Adult male. Head and neck all round and the whole breast 

 bright golden yellow ; flanks -washed with brownish grey ; abdomen 

 and thighs greyish white ; mantle, scapulars, and back yellowish 

 brown with an olive tinge ; feathers of hind neck washed with the 

 same colour ; tail uniform dark olive-yellow ; quills brown, edged 

 with olive-yellow ; wing-coverts more yellow than brown ; edge 

 of wing, under wing-coverts, and inner web of quills lemon-yellow ; 

 bill, feet, and iris black (Bidhr). Total length about 6 inches, cul- 

 men 0*6, wing 3-3-3, tail 2-7-3, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female like the male, but with the wing-coverts more like 

 the back. 



Young birds have the yellow parts strongly washed with olive- 

 brown. 



JIab. South Island of New Zealand. 



Observation. All the adult specimens I have been able to ex- 

 amine have the tips of the tail-feathers more or less abraded, so that 

 the pointed shafts project. 



a. Ad. ; b. cj ad. sk. New Zealand. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. South Island, X. Z. J. White, Esq. [P.]. 



8. PANURUS. 



Type. 



Panurus, Koch, System, d. baier. Zool. i. p. 202 (1816). . P. biarmicus. 



Calamophilus, Leach, Sy.it. Cat. M. Sj B. Brit. Mus. p. 1 7 



(1816) P. biarmicus. 



Mystacinus, Boie, Lsis, 1822, p. 556 P. biarmicus. 



Hvpenites, Gloger, Handb. Naturgesch. p. 281 (1842) . . P. biarmicus. 



Paroides (pt.). Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 193 (1847). 



Nostrils ovate, with a large operculum, the nasal opening situated 

 posteriorly, hidden by small plumes. Tongue horny, obtuse, divided 

 at the end, terminating in a few horny bristles. 



Range. The same as of the single species. 



1. Panurus biarmicus. 



Parus biarmicus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 342 (1766") ; Penn. Arctic 

 Zool. p. 428; Bechst. Voq. DeutscM. iv. p. 754; Betzius, Faun. 

 Suec. p. 272; Temm. Man. cFOrn. p. 298 ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 

 Meth. p. 603; Vieill. Gal. Ois. p. 89, pi. 69; Boii.r, Orn. Prov. 

 p. 195, pis. 123a & 1296 ; Less. Man. crOrn. i. p. 319; Less. Trnite 

 d^Orn. p. 457 ; Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 256; d'Orbigny, Ois. d'Eur. 



